Cybertronic Bestiary: Ain't Nothin' But A..., *UPDATED:The Rusthound (3/13) Options

[Master Fwiffo]

Epic!

[Tindalos]

Oh man, this is brilliant, I love cybertronian ecology, and these are brilliant pieces of art.

Only if you assume the cassettes are supposed to BE Cybertronian animals. That's a VERY big assumption IMO. Most media is very specific that the cassettes are their alternate forms and the "animal" forms are their basic robot selves. Just because their not standard humanoid doesn't mean they are analagous to Cybertronian animals. After all they are sentient intelligent beings. They just have "alternate" style robot-designs.

I dunno, Cybertron's Cybercats are probably what Dreamwave's Ravage and IDW's Steeljaw turn into.

And from the way you drew the Turbofox, Laserbeak and Buzzsaw were possibly originally from their chassis.

[Fishbug]

I may have to take a crack at the utterly ridiculous Guinea pig-o-tron.

[---The Rat]

hmm neat I really like this idea. It really adds a lot more depth to the idea of cyberton as a fully realized world\ecosystem.

although I do want to know why the wiki article is missing scraplettes. They were of course the little bugs that were eating g1 bumblebee that had no known cure. That is until Spike discovered that if you apply generous amounts of dihydrogen oxide to the infected area they die quickly.

Of course it's also missing petrorabbits, and ickyacks (mentioned by cup)
but that is splitting hairs aint it?

[Dissever]

Ig-Yacs aren't Cybertronian; I seem to recall them being from other off-world adventures. Maybe scraplets were treated more as a disease.

[CORVUS]

Indeed. And the cure for them is a chemical substance so rare that its very existence is suspect! *snicker*

Anyway, these are brilliant! Keep it up (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif)

This post has been edited by ^o^CORVUS^o^: Dec 16 2010, 06:37 PM

[Wingus]

A moose-bot once bit my sister...

[Blueshift]

That moose concept is genius. I love the spooky idea of its head flying about, living in its body that turns into a house! Mad stuff!

[Nutjob R/T]

Now I must beg the question: Is it a Moosebot that turns into a lodge and detaches its head into a Ghostwing?

Or is it the Ghostwing who is the primary, creating a Lodge-nest and then transforming into a head to control it, this latter combination known as a Moosebot?

[ZacWilliam1]

Now I must beg the question: Is it a Moosebot that turns into a lodge and detaches its head into a Ghostwing?

Or is it the Ghostwing who is the primary, creating a Lodge-nest and then transforming into a head to control it, this latter combination known as a Moosebot?

Perceptor: Sadly, very little of the classical paleontological and evolutionary information gathered during the Golden Age of Cybertron (also the Golden Age of Cybertronian Science, as you know) survived the destruction of the Iacon Natural History Museum at the start of the Second Cybertronian War. Given this sad loss the likely cyber-evolutionary genesis of the Alces Cybertronicus Titanimus can only be hypothesized. Unless, that is, some magnanimous benefactor would choose to fully fund a full exploratory expedition to the distant Northern Thermo-forests to research Titanimus mechanology. Anyone?

Outback: Ahhy, step up mates. Ahm in!


-ZacWilliam, would guess the Moosebot is core mainly since it's the existing in-cannon animal and it'd be a little forward to make my invention (the Ghostwing unit) the primary. That said, I love the creative thinking.

[ZacWilliam1]

Outback: Ace! Now we turn from one of the bonzer big-uns of the north ta two a the tiniest critters anywhere on Cybertron. Creepy-crawley time! Watch your afts for Astro Ticks and guard your picnics mates, once Ant-droids get their fair dinkum sensor net up they're right ready to bog in!


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-ZacWilliam, this one was a little tricky but I'm happy with the end result. Even if I, again, couldn't fit everything I dreamed up on page. Not a bad problem to have. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif)

This post has been edited by ZacWilliam1: Dec 20 2010, 06:14 PM

[Guest_Tramp_*]

I had started my own Cybertron beastiary a couple of years ago, though so far, I've only done the Turbo Fox and Petrorabbit.

You definitely went in a different direction than I did.

This post has been edited by Tramp: Dec 20 2010, 02:35 PM

[Stungun]

Okay, I am DIGGING how you made the astro-tick. It's freakishly alien, but has enough of the earth Tick freakishness to work (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif)

[Dissever]

A bit belated, but thank you Sso for the link to the wiki article.

The astro-tick certainly makes one rethink all those romantic evening firefly-lit scenes from movies and cartoons!! Zac, are you aiming to do the entire list? I am really head over heels for your innovative, non-literal interpretations of the animal names.

[ZacWilliam1]

Okay, I am DIGGING how you made the astro-tick. It's freakishly alien, but has enough of the earth Tick freakishness to work (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif)

Thanks. I was rather happy with how they came out. Once I hit on the origin of the name (the shining star-like energon sack) I knew what I wanted. But it took a few design revisions to get something simple enough that I liked it. My first sketch looked like a Tron disk with fangs but I like the cute/creepy ball a lot more.

The astro-tick certainly makes one rethink all those romantic evening firefly-lit scenes from movies and cartoons!! Zac, are you aiming to do the entire list? I am really head over heels for your innovative, non-literal interpretations of the animal names.

Glad you like them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif) I'm really enjoying the creative challenge of taking the fairly silly names and making some cool, logical "anibots" for them.

I'm gonna give the whole list a shot. The original poster I did and lost had sketches for all the ones that were on the wiki at the time so I've got at least a rough design to start from, though I've been doing a lot of creative revision since I'm recreating them from fuzzy memory anyway (the Ghostwing/Lodge stuff was a new adittion to the old Moosebot design, for instance).


-ZacWilliam, needs to make sure he spell checks the next one (not sure wich I'll go for next) had to re-upload this one 3 times fixing different typing mistakes. Should be cool now.

This post has been edited by ZacWilliam1: Dec 20 2010, 06:32 PM

[Stungun]

A moose-bot once bit my sister...

Moose-bots kan be pretty nasty, mynd you.

[Master Fwiffo]

So Awesome.

[ZacWilliam1]

Thanks much. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif)

[ZacWilliam1]

Outback:

Bonza! We're back at last mates and ready to lob in on one crackin' anibot. Don't get too close now.


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-ZacWilliam, who, after some time off for the holidays, had fun drawing again. So much so that I drew the snake way to big and had to scan it in segments (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif)

This post has been edited by ZacWilliam1: Jan 7 2011, 08:59 PM

[Fenix Twilight]

Really cool stuff, I'm just trying to remember where they are mentioned (aside from the Turbofox).

I dunno, Cybertron's Cybercats are probably what Dreamwave's Ravage and IDW's Steeljaw turn into.

I forgot all about that Blaster cover, it's cool how they look about as different as real Panthers and Lions, but share similarity's.

I had started my own Cybertron beastiary a couple of years ago, though so far, I've only done the Turbo Fox and Petrorabbit.

You definitely went in a different direction than I did.

I like your Turbofox, I could also see ZacWilliam's being the Cybertron form and yours more like a Earth mode for a Cassette, like Steeljaw.